U.S. Physical Therapy Schedules Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 October 2008-U.S. Physical Therapy Schedules Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com U.S. Physical Therapy, a national operator of physical and occupational therapy outpatient clinics, announced that it will issue its financial results for the third quarter and...

U.S. Physical Therapy Purchases Rehab Management Group.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 October 2008-U.S. Physical Therapy Purchases Rehab Management Group(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com U.S. Physical Therapy, a national operator of physical and occupational therapy outpatient clinics, announced that it has acquired a 65 percent interest in Rehab Management Group (RMG). According to...

TherapySource Finalizes Pact for Multi Location Clinic.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-27 November 2008-TherapySource Finalizes Pact for Multi Location Clinic(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com SourceMedical, a provider of outpatient information management solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to install TherapySource, its clinical documentation system in all of Therapy Partners' Rehabilitation facilities. ...

U.S. Physical Therapy Schedules Second Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-24 July 2008-U.S. Physical Therapy Schedules Second Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com U.S. Physical Therapy, a national operator of physical and occupational therapy outpatient clinics, announced that it will issue its financial results for the second quarter and...

Process for applying the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health model to a patient with patellar dislocation.
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has been proposed by the World Health Organization as a unified framework for describing the health status of people (Fig. 1). (1) The ICF recently was discussed in the physical therapy community as a possible framework for organizing and directing...

Anscor invests in US staffing outfit.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) yesterday, Anscor said it has entered into a purchase agreement for the acquisition of all the outstanding membership units in MDI Medical, LLC which is a Georgia limited liability company. The firm said the purchase price was determined...

Alternative therapies and methods of learning.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Daphne was almost two years old. She'd never crawled; in fact, the idea that she could move herself seemed a foreign concept to her. She'd made subtle progress in early intervention, but I knew my feisty daughter was capable of more. I began...

Use of a low-cost, commercially available gaming console (Wii) for rehabilitation of an adolescent with cerebral palsy.
Virtual reality (VR) is defined as an immersive, interactive, 3-dimensional computer experience occurring in real time. (1) It presents users with opportunities to engage in multidimensional, multi-sensory virtual environments (VEs) that appear to be and feel comparable to real events. (2,3) Virtual reality systems typically involve hardware and software...

MWCC land to be leased for veterans rehab center.
GARDNER - Through a bill approved last week by the state Legislature, 10 acres at Mount Wachusett Community College will be leased to Veteran Homestead Inc. to create a rehabilitation and training center for injured veterans. State Sen. Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre, announced last week that a...

Despite mandates of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act restricting post-acute care expenditures, a nationally representative study showed no decreases in the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries with five common diagnoses.
Despite mandates of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act restricting post-acute care expenditures, a nationally representative study showed no decreases in the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries with five common diagnoses receiving physical therapy and/or occupational therapy across all settings, and no decreases in units of physical therapist (PT) and/or occupational...